When President Trump was elected, the fact that he was planning to give massive tax cuts to the rich became common knowledge quite rapidly. For couples earning above $470,000, Trump planned to cut income tax...

On any given night in the United States, around 40,000 homeless veterans are left without a roof over their heads. Homelessness is a global issue with a cycle that has proven difficult to break. However,...

Last year, Alexis Bortell’s book advocating the legalization of medical marijuana was published and distributed by Amazon. There’s nothing especially surprising about that: activists often write books about the causes they’re passionate about. Now, the...

Despite what some world leaders might think, climate change is a real threat to our planet’s livelihood. To help combat the detrimental effects of pollution and overcrowding, eco-conscious countries and individuals are rethinking some of...

The famous Professor of Particle Physics, Brian Cox, is one of many scientists who believe we will soon be able to completely merge our human existence with machines. Specifically, he believes that we aren’t that...

In recent years you may have encountered the term ‘Holotropic Breathwork’, most likely in an article about altered states of consciousness that has all the empirical fortitude of a Goosebumps book. Holotropic Breathwork (or HB...

America is facing an unprecedented public health crisis— opioid addiction and the subsequent loss of many lives. The prescription drug OxyContin has been attributed to many of these deaths. Amazingly, however, little is known about...

As Earth’s population continues to swell, it becomes increasingly clear that the dominant model for resource management and distribution is not designed to cope. A global crisis rages around a shortage of healthy food, clean...

Billionaire and founder of Insys Therapeutics, Dr John Kapoor, has been arrested for his involvement in a diabolical scheme involving his company’s top selling opioid drug— Subsys. Curiously, it all went down on the very...

In 2016, a group of researchers in Germany found two fossilized teeth belonging to an unknown early primate. One of the teeth, the researchers say, is similar to that of closely related human ancestors, which...

Donald Trump won the presidency on the back of his ‘drain the swamp’ rhetoric, rallying the rust belt against ‘crooked’ Hillary Clinton, not quite the wolf of Wall Street, but possibly the witch of it....

In the first episode of the most recent season of Charlie Brooker’s hit dystopian drama Black Mirror, he imagines a society in which every social interaction is rated and ranked like an Uber ride. If...

France is looking to fine men for catcalling or aggressive behavior towards women in public. The proposals, which went under discussion this month, also include calls to extend the statute of limitations in cases of...

The number of tweets, Facebook statuses and Tumblr blogs posts using the #MeToo hashtag to give accounts of sexual harassment, violence and abuse is depressing and shocking. But it’s not surprising. Anybody who has been...

In recent years, the state of Colorado has cultivated a booming marijuana industry after recreational use of the plant was legalized in January 2014. Recently, Governor John Hickenlooper signed a new budget bill that will...

Back in 1816, an Italian anatomist by the name of Paolo Mascagni thought he found something peculiar. He claimed that he saw lymphatic vessels – which function like a waste drainage system for the rest...

When did you first start thinking about how you might make the world a better place? Twenty-one? Eighteen? Maybe even fifteen? Autumn Peltier, an indigenous Canadian teenager, gave her first speech advocating for universal access...